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smartcaveman
Asked: 2011-06-10 04:17:04 +0800 CST

Is there an IIS 7.5 Web Site View that looks anything like IIS 6 Web Site Properties?

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Is there an IIS 7.5 Web Site View that looks anything like the IIS 6 Web Site Properties view? I know where everything is in IIS6 (host headers, redirections, default filename etc.), but the view in IIS 7.5 is completely different. Is there anyway to access a traditional view in IIS 7.5?

If not, how would I access these features in IIS 7?

website iis iis-7 iis-6

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    Not that I'm aware of. But if you play with it, I think you'll grow to like it (I did).

    Host headers: Select Web site > under IIS > HTTP Response Headers or under Actions on the right-side > Bindings ...

    Redirections: I've always just installed URL Rewrite (via Web Platform Installer) and have used that. Otherwise IIS 7.x writes to Web.config, so you could go that route. More about HTTP Redirects - via the interface it requires a feature be turned on, as detailed in the article.

    Default filename: Select Web site > under IIS > Default Document

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  2. This won't fit as a comment, so to answer your question about redirecting all requests to another domain:

    1. Create a new Inbound rule (blank).
    2. Give it whatever name you want.
    3. Under Match URL select Matches the Pattern and Regular Expressions.
    4. Set pattern to .*
    5. Under Action select a type of Redirect.
    6. Enter whatever URL you want under Redirect URL (example: http://www.google.com).
    7. Decide whether you want to append the query string or not, and what type of status code you want returned.

    Note that if you want to use a canonical domain (so force www.domain.com or domain.com, or even altdomain1.com to go to domain.com) there's some nice templates already created under the SEO heading - Canonical domain name in particular (which I've found very valuable).

    EDIT: I suppose you could also add google.com as a domain to the site, and then use the method detailed in http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2009/11/30/iis-url-rewrite-redirect-multiple-domain-names-to-one.aspx since it's unlikely google.com would point to your server. However, that smells like a hack to me, so I don't know that I'd recommend it.

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